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Chapter 284 Hunting Festival

The not-so-successful life of a teacher lasted for about a month, and the Jiutou Village ushered in a hunting festival.

In the early days, there were both harvest festivals and hunting festivals in the festivals of Nine-headed Bird Village.However, due to the short time interval between the Harvest Festival and the Hunting Festival, and the cruelty of nature, the Harvest Festival was not worthy of the name, so the Harvest Festival and the Hunting Festival were merged later, and the nature of the festival also revolved around the theme of hunting.

After the autumn harvest, Hydra Village needs to pay taxes to Alegre City.This tax is very heavy, and after the tax is paid, there is not much grain left in the granary of Jiutouniao Village.

Unlike most animals on the "wasteland", human beings are always in a state of semi-starvation for a long time.Herbivores have the ubiquitous weeds to eat, while carnivores have the ubiquitous herbivores to eat.Only humans, crop yields are too low, weeds are not on their diet, and herbivores are difficult to catch.

The running speed of many animals on the "wasteland" is much higher than 20 meters per second.The average running speed of human beings is 15 meters per second - this kind of speed that can easily win the world championship before the apocalypse is not enough for chasing prey in the apocalypse.Animals that are not good at running also have their own life-saving tricks - for example, mice and rabbits can drill holes; for example, monkeys and squirrels can climb trees; "The most ferocious large beasts in the world, if they are not hungry when they encounter them, they will still stay away.

Of course, humans are not without advantages.In the last days, the intelligence of various animals has also been greatly improved, but human beings are still the only intelligent race.There are no guns in Hydra Village, but people will set traps.It's just that the villagers usually don't set traps, because under normal circumstances, it is difficult for them to profit from them.

If the trap is set too close to the village, the animals will not come; if the trap is set in the wilderness, then when people go to the trap to see if there is prey, the results are often not optimistic:

Or, you'll find that the trap isn't triggered - which is most of the time.With the improvement of animal intelligence, after a member of a certain population triggers a trap once, the rest of the population will rarely fall into the trap of the same kind again.

Or, you will find that there are only bones left in the trap-carnivores and scavengers in the wilderness are not ashamed to get something for nothing, and first come, first served is one of the principles in the wilderness.

Occasionally, one arrives at a trap with a group of carnivores feasting—disturbing a carnivore's feed invariably leads to a rage that usually costs one's life.The most powerful is the most fundamental principle that overrides all laws in the wasteland.

So, despite the abundance of animals in the wild, humans don't usually hunt for food.The reason why the villages in the wasteland hold hunting festivals every year is purely out of necessity.

The vitality of plants in the last days is indeed very strong.In the growing season, even in Siberia, where the natural environment is extremely harsh, there are still many plants that, like leeks, can grow back a few days after cutting off the stems and leaves.In addition, there are too many edible insects to catch during this time.Therefore, despite the extremely low level of agricultural production in the last days, and despite the extremely heavy taxes that Alegre imposed on non-Russian villages, by collecting wild vegetables and catching insects, at least no one would starve to death between spring and autumn.

But when winter comes, everything will change.

Autumn is the harvest season, but immigrant villages like Jiutouniao Village need to bear very heavy taxes.With surplus food alone, these villages will not be able to survive the arrival of spring anyway.

Nine-headed Bird Village is about [-] kilometers away from the Arctic Ocean. It has a continental climate with long winters and short summers.In July, the average temperature here can reach nineteen degrees Celsius.However, in January, the coldest month, the average temperature will plummet to minus [-] degrees Celsius.

As we head into the long winter, plant growth will stagnate and insects will be gone.

The physique of human beings in the last days has made remarkable progress, and the residents of Nine-headed Bird Village can even move freely in the wilderness at minus [-] degrees Celsius.However, when entering the wilderness at minus [-] degrees Celsius, ordinary heat preservation measures cannot prevent the rapid loss of body heat.That is to say, before the temperature dropped to minus [-] degrees Celsius, if the residents in the village could not store enough food through hunting, then a large number of people in the village would starve to death in winter.

The wilderness is rich in animal resources.Even without considering more than 250 species of birds and nearly 50 species of fish in rivers and lakes, there are still moose, northern deer, musk deer, snow sheep, Canadian deer, brown bear, wolf, red fox, arctic fox, sable, ermine Various native animals such as weasel, weasel, and American mink, as well as various "immigrant animals" such as wild boar, bison, hares, etc., migrated from all over the world after the disaster and settled here.If it weren't for the low hunting efficiency and the fact that they were often attacked by wild beasts in the wild, perhaps humans in the wilderness would prefer to choose the profession of hunters.

"If" is just "if" after all, the fact is that the hunting efficiency is not high and wild beasts are often attacked in the wilderness is an objective fact.Therefore, humans on the wilderness instinctively try to avoid hunting activities.However, whenever winter is approaching, for the continuation of the race, the men in the wilderness have to go into the wilderness, under the threat of the fangs and sharp teeth of wild beasts, to fight for the first chance of human beings.

At this time, porcupines and large tortoises, which rank last in the diet of carnivores, are undoubtedly human favorites; bison and wild boars often cause terrible casualties, but compared with hunger, hunting them The dangers to be faced are not so terrible; if you encounter a beast that is eating by chance, it will not only be coveted. their strong interest.

Men will show bravery, fearlessness and other excellent qualities when hunting, but no matter what, the shrill wails of women can often be heard in the village during hunting.Therefore, the hunting festival held before the official hunting begins is not a festival full of joy.The adults solemnly dance war dances at hunting festivals. They beat war drums, beat their chests, and roar ferociously to demonstrate, challenge, and intimidate the vast world outside.

Younger children don't understand, they don't have a conscious awareness of death.So on the day of the hunting festival, they always make a lot of noise.The usually strict mother tends to become extremely tolerant at such times.

(End of this chapter)